Enemy Quotes
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Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
John T. Flynn -
Delay is the enemy of progress.
Eliot Spitzer
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I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.
Janice Dickinson -
You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves
F. Sionil José -
You’d make an enemy out of me over a human?” The word “human” might as well have been “rodent.
Nalini Singh -
Time can be an enemy or a friend.
Joseph Brodsky -
No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.
Mark Steyn
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You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
Mike Tyson -
Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.
Laird Hamilton -
Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.
Martha Gellhorn -
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
Knute Nelson -
The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.
John Young -
If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.
John Ensign
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Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
Bill Shuster -
Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.
Chris Paine -
When American troops find themselves fighting for their lives, there is no better sound than an A-10 - a plane officially nicknamed the Thunderbolt II but known affectionately by the troops as the Warthog - firing its enormous 30-millimeter gun at the enemy.
Martha McSally -
I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.
Peter Mandelson -
I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.
Baldur von Schirach -
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.
Louis Bonaparte -
No war is over until the enemy says it's over.
James Mattis -
Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.
Saint Augustine -
Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.
Leslie Marmon Silko